FERDINAND BRUCKNER (1891 - 1958)

Theodore Tagger (Ferdinand Bruckner) was born in Vienna, but grew up in Graz. He studied music, medicine and law in Vienna, Paris and Berlin, where he founded, in 1923, the theatre he was to direct until 1927. In 1933 Bruckner returned to Vienna, but he soon emigrated, first to France, then, in 1933, to America.

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Vienna, 1923. A discontented post-war generation diagnose youth to be their sickness and do their best to destroy it. Promiscuous, pitiless and bored, six sexually entangled medical students restlessly wander in and out of a boarding house, cramming, drinking, taunting, spying. Freder sets about savagely experimenting with the young, pretty maid, with half an eye on his former lover Desiree, a wild, disillusioned aristocrat. Petrell abandons Marie for the ruthless underdog Irene. Marie doesn't waste any time weeping - Desiree wants her.

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1926 play. Medical students experiment with drugs, alcohol, lust and how to live life. Knowing how to kill and cure, reckless human desires compete with their factual knowledge. They learn that the power of words can change relationships and lives. Anything could happen at any moment as their youthful crises become more than just pubescent angst. Challenging and intense.

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1933. In a university town in Western Germany, two young medical students, Karlanner and his friend, Tessow, debate the future of their country and that of Karlanner's relationship with his Jewish girlfriend, Helene. The elections draw near, Karlanner is thrown into a state of confusion. Persuaded to attend a Party meeting, he comes away swayed, and soon the elections confirm that the National Socialist Party has won. Now a member, Karlanner struggles with his beliefs, but no matter how repellent he finds the Nazis, he can't seem to shake them. Helene had changed his life, and he still loves her, so when he learns that she is in danger, his world crumbles around him. Finally, at any cost, he must take a stand.

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